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14-letter words containing v, o, r, s

  • silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
  • sliding vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
  • social service — organized welfare efforts carried on under professional auspices by trained personnel.
  • solar activity — the sum of all variable and short-lived disturbances on the sun, as sunspots, prominences, and solar flares.
  • solitary vireo — a vireo, Vireo solitarius, of North and Central America, having the top and sides of the head bluish-gray.
  • solvay process — a process for manufacturing sodium carbonate whereby a concentrated solution of sodium chloride is saturated with ammonia, carbon dioxide is passed through it, and the product is calcined.
  • sound archives — official records or files (as in a library) of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances, esp those from radio programmes
  • southern slavs — one of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe, including the Russians and Ruthenians (Eastern Slavs) the Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slavonians, Slovenes, etc. (Southern Slavs) and the Poles, Czechs, Moravians, Slovaks, etc. (Western Slavs)
  • souvenir sheet — a single stamp or a pair, block, or set of stamps having the same or different designs commemorating a stamp exhibition or other event and having inscriptions in one or all four margins.
  • sovereign debt — the debt of a national government, esp debt that is issued in a foreign currency
  • splatter movie — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
  • stanovoi range — a mountain range in SE Russia; forms part of the watershed between rivers flowing to the Arctic and the Pacific. Highest peak: Mount Skalisty, 2482 m (8143 ft)
  • stock turnover — the rate at which stock is sold and replenished
  • storage device — a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.
  • store of value — the function of money that enables goods and services to be paid for a considerable time after they have been acquired
  • sub-government — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
  • summer visitor — a person, animal or bird who come to a place in summer
  • superelevation — bank1 (def 6).
  • superior ovary — Botany. an ovary positioned above a receptacle of a flower, as in members of the mint family.
  • superovulation — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
  • supportiveness — giving support.
  • supreme soviet — the bicameral legislature, comprising the Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of the Nationalities; officially the highest organ of state power
  • survivor guilt — feelings of guilt for having survived a catastrophe in which others died.
  • swinging voter — a person who does not vote consistently for any single political party
  • tergiversation — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • tergiversatory — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • the reverse of — emphatically not; not at all
  • topsy-turvydom — a state of affairs or a region in which everything is topsy-turvy.
  • totidem verbis — with just so many words; in these words.
  • transactivator — to activate the replication of (a viral gene) through the presence of a gene at another locus, especially following a viral infection.
  • transformative — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
  • transvaluation — to reestimate the value of, especially on a basis differing from accepted standards; reappraise; reevaluate.
  • traveler's-joy — a woody vine, Clematis vitalba, of the buttercup family, native to Europe and northern Africa, having long-plumed fruit and slightly fragrant, white flowers.
  • treasure trove — If you describe something or someone as a treasure trove of a particular thing, you mean that they are a very good or rich source of that thing.
  • treasure-trove — anything of the nature of treasure or a treasury that one finds: Mother's attic was a treasure-trove of memorabilia.
  • trial division — trial department
  • trois-rivieres — French name of Three Rivers.
  • turn of events — If there is a particular turn of events, a particular series of things happen.
  • unchivalrously — in an unchivalrous manner
  • unconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • unconstructive — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
  • undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
  • undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
  • universal soul — Brahman in its aspect as the sacred syllable Om, the eternal and spiritual principle that permeates the universe
  • unresolvedness — the state of being unresolved or irresolute
  • unresponsively — in an unresponsive manner
  • vaingloriously — in a vainglorious manner
  • valcour island — an island in NE New York, in Lake Champlain: battle 1776.
  • valerianaceous — belonging to the plant family Valerianaceae.
  • van conversion — van2 (def 4).
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